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Alain Delon, death of a cinema monument
From his magnetic presence in ‘Plein soleil’ which revealed him to the general public to his inhabited roles with Visconti, then Melville and Deray, a look back at the career and life of Alain Delon.
(Franceinfo)
The French actor died at the age of 88, his three children announced Sunday morning in a statement sent to AFP.
An icon of world cinema, an instinctive actor with incandescent beauty, Alain Delon died at the age of 88. “The actor of ‘Plein soleil’ and ‘Le Samourai’ has gone to join (the Virgin) Mary among the stars so dear to his heart. His family asks you to respect his privacy, in this extremely painful moment of mourning”wrote his children on Sunday, August 18.
Extremely rare in cinema since the end of the 1990s, the actor had made headlines in recent months after his three children filed a complaint against his companion, Hiromi Rollin, sometimes described as his partner, suspecting abuse of weakness. Victim of a stroke in 2019, he had returned that year to taste the lights of the Cannes red carpet to receive an honorary Palme d’Or, between tears and speeches with testamentary accents: “It’s a bit of a posthumous tribute, but during my lifetime.”the actor said.
